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All the Way by Marie Darrieussecq
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful, hilarious and achingly honest story about a young French girl discovering her sexuality. Solange wants to have sex. Will it be with one of the boys at school? The exchange student? The fireman she meets at the disco when she sneaks out one night? Or with Arnaud, the coolest boy she knows? Sh ...Show more
Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Being Here is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter, by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq. As her art evolves, Paula is torn betwee ...Show more
Crossed Lines by Marie Darrieussecq
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When her mother offers Rose a Mediterranean cruise with her two children, she jumps at the chance to get away from her husband who drinks too much, and the renovations of their holiday house in the south. But one night the cruise ship comes upon a shipwrecked boat full of refugees, who are taken aboard. ...Show more
Men by Marie Darrieussecq
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The French title of Men plays on a quote by Marguerite Duras: 'We have to love men a lot. A lot, a lot. Love them a lot in order to love them. Otherwise it's impossible, we couldn't bear them.' With her characteristic intensity, edginess and humour, Marie Darrieussecq explores female desire, what it mea ...Show more
Our Life in the Forest by Marie Darrieussecq; Penny Hueston (Translator)
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the near future, a woman is writing in the depths of a forest. She's cold. Her body is falling apart, as is the world around her. She's lost the use of one eye; she's down to one kidney, one lung. Before, in the city, she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma, in particular ...Show more
Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia by Marie Darrieussecq
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
"I lost sleep. I retraced my steps but sleep wasn’t following me. It had broken free and I was wandering through the night without it. The world is divided into those who can sleep and those who can’t. What is it like to live with chronic insomnia? For Marie Darrieussecq, not sleeping began after the bi ...Show more
The Baby by Marie Darrieussecq
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Baby is a mother's project and a writer's project-how to reconcile these two demanding roles? What is a baby? And why are there so few of them in literature? Through notes taken in the months after her first child was born, Darrieussecq, in her characteristically ingenious style, makes observations ...Show more
Tom is Dead by Marie Darrieussecq
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's sto ...Show more
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